FTTP on half of my street

[Cmcg]

Hi,

I am sorry to have to post a message that has already been covered but I can't seem to get a full answer from anywhere.

I live on a 5 year old estate in Pontefract. Half of my street (granted it's none a straight line and quite oddly designed) has full FTTP at 900mbps whereas my half can only get 70mpbs with no FTTP.

I understand it is all to do with position etc which is extremely annoying but the part that i'm baffled at is on the rollout map, Pontefract is not part of the plan for FTTP - even though some places already have it in the town. Don't quite understand that.

[iniltous]

Nothing to do with cabinet position, FTTP doesn’t run from a cabinet anyway, even with  a relatively new development , chances are 5 years ago , FTTP wasn’t the automatic choice , so if the developer didn’t ask for FTTP they would have got copper pairs, for the last year or two the default option is FTTP , so if the half of you street that has FTTP is a little younger , for example, you in ‘Phase 1’ and the others in ‘Phase  2’, then that could explain why.

[licquorice]

2 things

FTTP has nothing to do with cabinets, it is an entirely different network.

The rollout of FTTP has nothing to do with BT retail (this forum), it is Openreach that provide the fibre infrastructure.  Nobody here will have any information.

[jac_95]

Properties are actually assigned to a CBT (Connectorised Block Terminal) when FTTP is being planned. Depending on how many properties are on your street you may have multiple CBTs. In some cases some CBTs are lit and ready to be tested before others which means there maybe a delay when one CBT goes live and ready for orders compared to others meaning some properties on the same street that are covered by CBTs already made live and ready compared to those that are still either in build phase or being tested.

[Cmcg]

Thanks that does make more sense. The other half of the street have had FTTP since the estate was built so 5 years later for us and still no word, and no plans on the rollout map just seems a bit odd

[jac_95]

Was it the same developer? built the same time?

Could be various reasons from the way the network was planned and using a variety of solutions down to cost and build complexities, someone on that side of the street paying for FTTP on Demand to different developers and their policies. I see one newish estate there a developer has gone for an Altnet rather the Openreach.

[Cmcg]

Hi. It was the same developer yes and built over about 2 years or so. Shame there are no plans 😞

[Starwire]

The street that has it may have been part of later Build Phase when the USO to provide a Metallic Path back to an Exchange had expired and they could provide only a Fibre Connection.

Sounds like you live on what Openreach call a Retro Fit Site, basically New Builds that were built in the past 20 years.

Openreach are on a massive Retro Site Build at the moment and are aiming to get all Retro Fit Sites Full Fibre within the next 5 years.

Loads of them where I live either now have it or it’s in build phase.